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Rove   /roʊv/   Listen
verb
Rove  v. t.  
1.
To draw through an eye or aperture.
2.
To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
3.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.


Rove  v. t.  
1.
To wander over or through. "Roving the field, I chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold."
2.
To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.


Rove  v. i.  (past & past part. roved; pres. part. roving)  
1.
To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. (Obs.)
2.
Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. "For who has power to walk has power to rove."
3.
(Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). "Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove."
Synonyms: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.


noun
Rove  n.  
1.
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
2.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.


Rove  n.  The act of wandering; a ramble. "In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt."
Rove beetle (Zool.), any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidae, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.





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"Rove" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sarawak, the coasts and the seas from Singapore to China were infested with pirates. "It is in the Malay's nature," says a Dutch writer, "to rove the seas in his prahu, as it is in the Arab to wander with his steed on the sands of the desert." Before the English and Dutch Governments exerted themselves to put down piracy in the Eastern seas, there were communities of these Malays settled in various parts of the coast of ...
— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall
... more. During the first year, the young remain with their parents. In the second, they occupy an adjoining apartment, and assist in building, and in procuring food. At two years old, they part, and build houses of their own; but often rove about for a considerable time before they fix upon a spot. There are beavers, called, by the Indians, old bachelors, who live by themselves, build no houses, and work at no dams, but shelter themselves in holes. The usual method of ...
— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston
... crystal rocks ye rove Beneath the bosom of the sea, Wandering in many a coral grove, Fair Nine, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 • Various
... (ll. 1-4) Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life, observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers; for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... natives in hundreds, who avail themselves of a fall of rain to rove through the sandy ridges to hunt these little animals and the talpero, Perameles, as long as there shall be surface water. We had five of these little animals in a box, that thrived beautifully on oats, and I should have ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt


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